| A | B |
|---|
| dictator | a ruler who has complete control over a country |
| totalitarian state | a nation in which a single political party controls the government and all aspects of people's lives |
| collective farm | a farm controlled by the government |
| nationalism | a feeling of strong patriotic pride towards one nation |
| aggression | any warlike action by one country against another without just cause |
| concentration camp | a prison for civilians who are considered enemies of the state |
| annex | to add land onto a nation (either voluntarily or by force) |
| appeasement | giving into aggression in order to avoid war |
| blitzkrieg | German for "lightning war" |
| ration | to limit the amount of certain goods that may be bought |
| segregation | separation of the races |
| island hopping | the practice of taking control of some Japanese held island and avoiding others while moving toward Japan |
| kamikaze | refers to Japanese pilots who would purposely crash into Allied ships |
| atomic bomb | a weapon powerful enough to destroy a whole city |
| cold war | describes period of indirect but bitter conflict between the United States and Soviet Union from 1945-1991 |
| iron curtain | coined by Winston Churchill; described the division between the communist East and the capitalist, free West |
